Photo Gallery

Standing Rock: Photographs of an Indigenous Movement

On Monday, February 5, 2018, the Kutsche Office of Local History
hosted a reception in honor of Levi Rickert and the exhibit: Standing
Rock, Photographs of an Indigenous Movement.

During the recent Standing Rock resistance to stop the Dakota Access
oil pipeline, American Indian journalist, Levi Rickert, knew the
largest American Indian movement since the 1973 Wounded Knee was
unfolding. Rickert, the publisher and editor of Native News Online,
covered the emergence of the movement from Standing Rock, Washington,
D.C. to the steps of Michigan’s capitol. The results of his
photo-journalist work yielded over 1,500 photographs that capture the
intensity of the movement. Standing Rock: Photographs of an
Indigenous Movement provides a glimpse of the struggle for
indigenous water rights and tribal sovereignty.